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Note: 787 and 24 April 1795. The 1795 date was given by three different letters that each are said to have come from a family Bible in Youngstown, NY. The 1787 date was given on DAR National No. 67286, filed by Winona Moore Sherwood in 1938 as well as a descendant of Lyman's daughter. However, other records and claims of the birth dates of his siblings cause some conflicts.
The 1880 sketch from the Portrait and Biographical Album of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin, states that Lyman H. Phillips was born at Manlius in 1788, and that he lost his parents when he was quite young, afterward living with older brothers until he was 21. We know that his father died in 1815, but if Lyman was born as early as 1787 or 1788, he would have been 27 or 28 years old at the time--and so it seems more likely that he was born years later if he was a minor when his parent died.
1860 and 1870 census records for Fond du Lac Co., Wisconsin, indicate that Lyman H. Phillips was 63 and 73, respectively--hence born about 1797. His grave stone states that he died 16 April 1876, aged 78 years--hence born in 1797 or early 1798.
The late Lyman H. Phillips is mentioned in the will of his brother, Elihu L. Phillips (dated 1876, proved 1884), naming Lyman's widow, Celestia W. Phillips, their daughter, Susan A. Coleman, and her husband, Edward Coleman.
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Lyman H. Phillips Timeline:
born abt. ? 1787, 1788, 1795, or 1797
1815 his father died when he was young
lived with older brothers until age 21, at which time he moved to Clarkson, Monroe Co., NY (before 1820, when it was still in Genesee Co.)
year? bought a farm at East Gaines, Orleans Co., NY (which he owned for 40 years)
1824 married Celestia W. Case at Clarkson, Monroe Co., NY
1827 daughter Susan born (say at Lewiston, Niagara Co., but perhaps elsewhere)
1829 daughter Sarah born
1830 enumerated in Gaines, Orleans Co., NY
1830 left his farm at East Gaines, Orleans Co., NY; moved to Pennsylvania to build a canal
abt. 1833 son John born
1834 moved to Syracuse, NY; went into the mercantile business with his brother, Elihu; was a trustee of the Village of Syracuse
1836 dissolved his partnership with his brother Elihu
1838 moved to Albion, Orleans Co., NY (near Gaines and East Gaines)
1838 organized the Farmer's Bank of Orleans at Gaines; served as president until 1843
1840 probably the same enumerated in Gaines, Orleans Co., NY
1841 daughter Sarah died at Gaines, Orleans Co., NY
1847 made his home at Buffalo, NY, while he contracted with his brother Elihu to dredge and widen the Erie Canal
1850 traveled "the West", contacted a fever and had a limb amputated
1850 may be the Lyman H. Phillips enumerated in Albion, NY
1851 or 1852 moved to Empire Twp., Fond du Lac Co., WI, and bought a large farm
1854 built a large frame home on his farm
1857 son John died at Empire, Fond du Lac Co., WI
1874 his house burned down
1875 rebuilt his home
1876 died in Fond du Lac Co., WI (Probate # 3213)
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The Rochester Telegraph, dated 5 Oct. 1824, gave notice of the marriage of Lyman H. Phillips and Celestia W. Case, which took place in Clarkson, Monroe County. (Clarkson was created out of Murray Twp. (now Orleans Co.) in 1819. Monroe Co. was created out of Genesee Co. in 1821. Rochester is also in Monroe County.)
DAR Lineage Book, Vol. XXX (1889), p. 297:
Mrs. Susan Phillips Coleman 29826
born [abt. 1829] in Lewiston, New York Wife of Edward Coleman.
Descendant of William Case.
Daughter of Lyman Hubbard Phillips and Celestia Woodruff Case, his wife.
Granddaughter of William Case and Sarah Hickox (sic--elsewhere Wilcox), his wife.
William Case [born 23 May 1751 at Simsbury or Canton, CT; d. 1807 near Syracuse, NY] served as a private in the Second Connecticut Continetal regiment.
Also No. 21470 This couple may have lived in Lewiston, Niagara Co., New York by 1829 (where their daughter Susan claimed to have been born), but they are known to have lived in Gaines, Orleans Co., NY, about that time:
1830 US Census (Roll 115, p. 68)
Gaines, Orleans Co., NY
Lyman H. Phillips
1 male 10-15 6 males 20-30 1 male 30-40 2 females 0-5 2 females 5-10 1 female 10-15 1 female 15-20 1 female 30-40 (They obviously had quite a few people in their household who were not in their immediate family. Lyman ran a stage stop on the Ridge Road.)
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A different Lyman Phillips married in New York about the same time:
From the Palladium newspaper, Osewgo, NY
Married: Scriba, April 24 [1823], Lyman Phillips and Miss Adaline Whitley, both of Scriba [Oswego Co., NY].
This Lyman Phillips, and his family, was enumerated in Scriba, Oswego Co., NY in 1830.
And there was yet another Lyman Phillips:
1830 US Census (Roll 90, p. 215)
Middlebury, Genesee Co., NY
Lyman Phillips
1 male 0-5 1 male 5-10 1 male 15-20 1 male 20-30 1 male 30-40 1 female 0-5 1 female 10-15 1 female 20-30 ****
Lyman H. Phillips returned to Syracuse where he was a was a village trustee in 1834. (Early Landmarks of Syracuse, by Gurney S. Strong (1894), p. 375)
Onondaga Standard, 9 March 1836 (from card file at OHA):
"Elihu L. Phillips--co-partnership with Lyman H. Phillips [his brother] under the firm of E. L. Phillips & Co., dissolved Feb. 17, 1836. He has associated Nelson D. Phillips [his nephew] with him under firm of E.L. & N.D. Phillips, and will continue to keep at the Stone Store a large assortment of dry goods. Feb. 17, 1836."
The 1889 sketch of Lyman H. Phillips states that he organized the "Orleans County Bank at Gaines, of which he was president until 1843."
This bank was actually called the Farmer's Bank of Orleans, a banking association organized under the "Act to authorize the business of Banking," which was passed by the New York Legislature 18 April 1838. Four thousand shares of $50 each were to be issued, amounting to $200,000 in stock, with the option to increase it to $500,000. Articles of Association for the Farmer's Bank of Orleans were drawn up 19 May 1838. Thirteeen directors were elected on the second Monday in June, and Lyman H. Phillips was elected president. The directors recorded a certificate setting for the organization of the bank, dated 23 July 1838. Shareholders (to the amount of $211,250) met and all signed the certificate 22 September 1838, which was recorded 2 October 1838. (See Valk v. Crandall, et al. (1843), in Report of Cases of the Court of Chancery of the State of New York, before the hon. Lewis H. Sandeford, Assistant Vice Chancellor of the Fifth Circuit (1846), Vol. I., pp. 80-81.)
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1840 US Census (Roll 321, p. 370)
Gaines, Orleans Co., NY
Lyman H. Phillips
1 male 15-20 1 male 40-50 2 females 10-15 1 female 15-20 1 female 20-30 1 female 30-40 (This was the Lyman H. & Celestia W. (Case) Phillips. Again, they operated a stage stop on the Ridge Road.)
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Lyman H. Phillips, of Orleans Co., NY, was a delegate to the Chicago River-and-Harbor Convention in 1847. (Chicago River-and-Harbor Convention ..., by William Mosley Hall, et al., (Chicago, 1882), p. 63)
A copy of the Excavation Contract, dated 22 July 1848, to enlarge sections one and two of the Erie Canal through Buffalo, New York, between Lyman H. Phillips, of Gaines, Orleans Co., New York, and Zebulon Moore of Lyons, Wayne Co., New York, parties of the first part, and the Canal Commissioners of the State of New York, parties of the second part, was printed (as Exhibit No. 36) in the Documents of the State of New York, Seventy-Fourth Session (1851), Vol. 6, pp. 192-197. Subsequent pages describe detailed specifications, and their work is mentioned in reports and depositions printed elsewhere in the volume.
New York Daily Tribune (New York, NY), 31 July 1848, p. 1, col. 2 (bottom):
“Canal Contracts.—The contracts for the completion of sections 1 and 2 of the Enlarged [Erie] Canal were taken on Tuesday by Mr. Lyman H. Phillips of Gaines, Orleans Co. and Mr. Zebulon Moore of Lyons, Wayne Co. The cost of these two sections, it is thought, will be from $125,000 to $130,000. The water-way of the Canal will be 140 feet wide. (Roch. Adv.”
An Act for the Relief of Lyman H. Phillips and Zebulon Moore, was passed by the New York Legislature, 29 March 1849. It authorized compensating Phillips and Moore for completing extra work in fulfilling their contract to enlarge sections one and two of the Erie Canal through Buffalo, New York. The additional work and hardships included: draining surface water into the lake rather than into section three; flooding of their section during gales in November and December 1848 and January 1849; and work that proved to be more difficult and expensive than that described in the contract. Interestingly, rather than define an amount, the act simply allowed Phillips and Moore "such compensation as they may deem just and equitable ..." (Laws of the State of New York, Passed by the Seventy Second Session of the Legislature [January-April 1849], (Troy, NY, 1849), Chap. 170, p. 232)
Articles and notices in the Syracuse Daily Journal in 1851, mostly 1852, and as late as 1859, mention “lands contracted by Lyman H. Phillips and others”—presumably in connection with widening the Erie Canal.
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A man by this name is found in the 1850 US Census in nearby Albion, Orleans Co., NY:
(living in the Goold Hotel, under Harry Goold, with about 18 other tenants)
Lyman H. Phillips, 45 [b. abt. 1805], Farmer
Nancy Phillips, 43 Susan Phillips, 22 I do not know if this is the same or a different Lyman H. Phillips. His wife's name is given as Nancy, with a daughter named Susan. It is possible that this is the same Lyman H. Phillips, and that his age and his wife's name were recorded wrong. He did have a daughter named Susan who would have been abt. 21 in 1850, and so that fits. We know from his biographical sketch that Lyman H. Phillips took a trip west in 1850 and came down with a fever that was so bad that he had a limb amputated, and so perhaps he was gravely ill at the time the census enumerator came around, which might account for the confusion. Also, there may have been some general confusion by the simple fact that they were living in a hotel with quite a few other people to enumerate. It is also possible--speculation--that this man was entirely different, or perhaps was related to the Ira Phillips who lived in nearby Murray Twp., Orleans Co.
Despite searching high and low, I have not been able to find another record in the 1850 US Census that might be Lyman H. & Celestia Phillips.
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Two men named Lyman Phillips were enumerated in Michigan in 1850, but neither fit:
In Saline, Washtenaw Co., Michigan, we find one Lyman Phillips, 55 (b. 1805 MA) with three teenagers; and next to him, there is Lyman F. Phillips, 25 (b. 1825 NY) and wife Jane and an infant son. The younger Lyman Phillips (b. 1825), wife Jane and five children appear in the 1860 US Census in Isabelle, Pierce Co., Wisconsin.
There was another Lyman H. Phillips who married Julia A. Goddard, 18 May 1858 in Lafayette Co., Wisconsin (Vol. 1, p. 233).
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Lyman H. Phillips was enumerated in Empire Twp., Fond du Lac Co., Wisconsin in the 1855 Wisconsin State Census (the index did not show details). His brother, Elihu L. Phillips, was also enumerated in 1855.
Lyman H. Phillips was reportedly elected to the Wisconsin State Senate (see History of Fond du Lac County (1976), by Ruth Shaw Worthing, p. 22). However, I do not find his name in the records, and this claim was probably confused with the public service of his brother, Elihu L., who was a Wisconsin State Senator in 1860-61.
1860 U.S. Census (Roll 1407, p. 413)
Empire Twp., Fond du Lac Co., WI (enumerated 21 July 1860, p. 119, lines 11-24)
Lyman H. Phillips, 63, m, farmer, real estate $34,700, personal property $9,670, b. NY
Celestia W. " ", 61, f, b. New York Margaret Reardon, 17, f, servant, b. Ireland *Thurza Phillips, 70, real estate $1,000, personal property $1,000, b. CT
*Maria Bates, (? 24 or 41--difficult to read), f, b. NY *Julia Mathews, 18, f, servant, b. Russia Darmstadt *Edward Coleman, 31, m, Farmer, real estate $600, personal property $300, b. NY
*Susan " ", 31, f, b. NY [daughter of Lyman H. & Celestia Phillips] Sarah L. " ", 8, f, b. NY John L. " ", 11 mo., m, b. WI Joseph (?Reelz or Koolz), 27, m, Farm Laborer, real estate $300, b. Russia Darmstadt
Matthies Gerharz, 20, m, b. Prussia Charles Shiefer, 20, m., b. NY Elizabeth (?____), 30, f, b. NY (*Note: "Thurza" Phillips was the widow of Lyman Phillips' brother Elias. Julia Mathews was her granddaughter. "Maria Bates" was probably an in-law of her granddaughter, Helen L. (Mathews) Butts. Susan Coleman was Lyman's daughter.)
Syracuse Standard (Syracuse, NY), 22 May 1862:
"Mr. E. L. Phillips, who was Sheriff of this county some years ago, lives near the city of Fond du Lac. He has been State Senator and is prominently spoken of as the next Republican candidate for Governor. His brother, Lyman Phillips, lives on an adjoining farm."
1870 U.S. Census (Roll 1713, p. 153)
Empire Twp., Fond du Lac Co., WI (enumerated 1 July 1870)
Lyman Phillips, 73, m, w, Farmer, real estate $43,800, personal property $15,000, b. NY
Celestia ----, 70, f, w, keeping House, b. CT Mary Morres, 20, f, w, house Help, b. WI Edward Burch, 20, m, w, Farm Laborer, b. NY Abram Burch, 35, m, w, Farmer, v. NY Mary ---- (apparently wife of Abram), 28, f, w, keeping house, b. NY
1880 U.S. Census (Roll 1425, p. 200)
Fond du Lac (3rd Ward), Fond du Lac Co., WI
(head of household looks to be Clifford/Wilford Manse/Mores/Moore? Besides his wife and son, there were three other boarders and two servants.)
Celestia W. Phillips, 80, widow, Boarding, b. NY, both parents b. NY
Edward Coleman, 50, boarding, b. NY, both parents b. NY Susan A. (Coleman), 51, boarding, b. NY, both parents b. NY ***
Portrait and Biographical Album of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (Chicago, 1889), pp. 239-240:
“Lyman H. Phillips was born at Manlius, Onondaga Co., N.Y., in 1788, his father, Elijah, and mother, Susannah Phillips, having moved there from Connecticut about 1786. Being an invalid all his early life and losing his parents when quite young, his home was with his elder brothers until twenty-one, when he went to Clarkson, Monroe Co., N.Y., and took a contract to build a number of miles of the Erie Canal. He there contracted a fever which nearly proved fatal, but with returning health came the strength so long desired, and for many years he lived an active business life. While in Clarkson he bought a farm at East Gaines, Orleans Co., N.Y., which he owned for forty years.
“In 1825 [sic], Mr. Phillips married Celestia Woodruff Case. Being connected with the running of a line of stages from Rochester to Lewiston on the Ridge road, he opened a stage house on his farm, where he remained until 1830, when he contracted to build a number of miles of canal in Pennsylvania, and went with his wife and one child in a covered wagon over the mountains. In 1834 he moved to Syracuse, N.Y., going into the mercantile business with his brother Elihu, and remained until 1838. Not liking the business he moved to Albion, N.Y., while making preparations to open the Orleans County Bank at Gaines, of which he was president until 1843. In 1847, he took a contract on the enlargement of the Erie Canal at Black Rock, and another on the great Western Railway, making his home in Buffalo. In 1850, he traveled through the West; on his journey home, he was stricken with a fever, which resulted in the loss of a limb. This was such an affliction that he felt he could not live where he had led such an active a life, and decided to locate in Fond du Lac, which he did in 1851, buying the Conklin farm in the town of Empire. He was a genial, hospitable man, and his home was always open to friends. In 1854, the log house on the place when purchased was replaced by a large frame house, which was destroyed by fire in 1874, and rebuilt by him in 1875. His health, already failing from his age and crippling condition, never recovered from the excitement and grief caused by the loss of his long-time home, and he died April 16, 1876.”
(NOTE: This 1889 sketch suggests that he may have been involved in the initial construction of the Erie Canal in the 1820s or 1830s and it was during this time that he contracted a fever and lost his arm. However, other sources indicate indicate that he contracted to widen the Erie Canal in the late 1840s and he contracted the fever while traveling west around 1850 and lost his arm at that time.)
A map from the “The Wisconsin Doomsday Book” Town Studies, Volume 1 (1924), p. 46, showing Emprie, Fond du Lac County, Farms and Farmers of 1860, indicates that the farm of Lyman H. Phillips included 730 acres, all of which were cultivated, and was valued at $29,000, with the value of machinery and livestock at $3,800, and 600 bushels of wheat being raised the previous season. A second set of numbers (apparently compiled for 1870) show 500 acres in cultivation, 230 acres uncultivated, farm valued at $43,800, machinery and livestock valued at $5,100, and 600 bushels of wheat raised. Lyman H. Phillips' farm was the largest and most highly valued farm in Empire Township. It was immediately north of the farm of his brother, Elihu L. Phillips (which was 530 acres and values at $20,000 in 1860).
From the same volume, p. 48: "In 1860 a total 54 out of 119 farms [in Empire Twp.] kept sheep, the largest flock being that of Lyman H. Philipps [sic]--384 head--with Lyman Moore second--94 head."
Ibid, p. 50: "... The [Conkin / Lyman H. Phillips] farm ... is probably the most historic in Empire. ... The sheep industry, in which Empire long led, and the dairy industry, which has grown steadily to the present time, were both inaugurated on a large scale on this farm."
The History of Fond du Lac County, as told by its place-names (1976), by Ruth Shaw Worthing, p. 22:
"Conklin Farm in Section 7 of EMPIRE was acquired by Col. Henry Conklin in 1840. ... The property is now the grounds of St. Mary Springs Academy [owned by the Sisters of St. Agnes]. Among its owners were James Duane Doty, Wisconsin's second territorial governor [also a judge, U.S. Congressman, and later Governor of Utah Territory], Lyman H. Phillips and Edward Coleman, both of whom served as state senators*, and Owen A. Well, Congressman." (* I have not found any record to indicate that Lyman H. Phillips ever served as a state senator; this claim is probably confused with the public service of his brother, Elihu L. Phillips.)
Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 6 (1922), p. 296, gives substantially the same information about the Conklin Farm, once owned by Lyman H. Phillips.
Lyman H. Phillips's farm included the north half of Section 7, the northwest quarter of section 8 and the west half of the northeast quarter of section 8, Empire Township. It also included the north-east quarter of section 12 in Fond du Lac Twp., which was contiguous to his property in Empire Twp. The southern line of this property is now Highway 23 or East Johnson Street, and the southwestern corner is less than two miles east of Main Street, Fond du Lac. The property is now bisected by County Road K (running north and south) and a new four-lane highway (151) along the western side, running north and south. From satellite images, much of the property is still agricultural, but there are a couple subdivisions on the property as well as St. Mary's Springs High School. The original property straddled the Niagara Escarpment (which here runs about north and south), known locally as "the ledge", a geologically significant ridge that overlooks Fond du Lac and nearby Lake Winnebago, and stretches over 1,000 miles from the Great Lakes to Niagara Falls.
Lyman H. Phillips is mentioned, concerning a note of $500 given at 25%, apparently for the construction of a road in or near Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in "The Westward Trail"
by W. A. Titus, The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Jun., 1936), pp. 404-430. See: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4631089
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When I contacted Rienzi Cemetery in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Diane Bunger (Family Service Counselor) wrote that she had checked their records and did not find any of the Phillips relation I listed. However, I found compiled transcriptions from Rienzi Cemetery, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, showing the following:
Row 17, S-N (Phillips & Coleman all on one stone)
PHILLIPS
Sarah C., dau. of L. H. & C. W., d. Feb. 10, 1841, ae. 11 yrs.* John H., d. Feb. 19, 1857, ae. 34 yrs. Lyman H., d. April 16, 1876, ae. 78 yrs. Celestia, wife of L. H., b. May 15, 1800, d. Mar. 3, 1886 COLEMAN
Edward, Col., (49 Reg. Wisc. Vol.), 1828-1898 Susan A., 1827-1907 Charles Phillips, son of E. & S. A. Coleman, d. July 18, 1856, ae. 5 mo., 20 days
John D., 1859-1940 Emelia M. Erhart, his [John's] wife, 1865-1959 Susan E., 1893-1980 (* Note that there is also a grave stone for Sarah C. Phillips in Gaines, Orleans Co., New York. It is most likely that her name was included on the monument in Reinzi Cemetery only as a memorial including the whole family--see notes under Sarah C. Phillips.)
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I found Lyman H. Phillips in a number of land records in western New York. There appeart to have been another Lyman Phillips in Ontario Co. at that time, a Lyman D. Phelps in Orleans Co, as well as his nephew (son of John). But all of the records transcribed below for "Lyman H. Phillips" (unless otherwise noted), probably refer to the son of Elijah & Susannah (Gates) Phillips.
Geneesee Co., NY:
(year/s) Deed Book, page
GRANTEE
(1805-1821) 15, 475
(1821-1831) 18, 124
(1821-1831) 18, 128
(1831-1840) 29, 519
(1831-1840) 44, 75
(1831-1840) 45, 48
Orleans Co., NY:
(year) Deed Book, page
GRANTEE
(1825) A, 231 -- 30 ac. from Henry D. Luse
(~1825) A, 234 -- 42+ ac. from John Huff
(1830) 3, 173 -- 6 ac. from Zephaniah Luse
(1830) 3, 175 -- 6+ac. from Mary Luse
(1830) 3, 299 -- 56 ac. from Mary Luse
(1830) 3, 300 -- 6+ ac. from Chauncey Woodworth
(1831) 3, 471 -- 56 ac. from Alpheus Wooster
(1831) 3, 473 -- 56 ac. from Zephaniah Luse
(1831) 3, 375 -- 93 ac. from Mary Luse, et al.
(1831) 4, 208 -- 56 ac. from Zephaniah Luse
(1835) 11, 70 -- 56 ac. from Alexis Ward
(1836) 14, 61 -- 100 ac. from Oliver D. Warner
(1836) 14, 428 -- 1 ac. from Daniel Burnett
(1838) 15, 247 -- 587 ac.from Thomas Plues (to Lyman H. Phillips, et al.)
(1843) 24, 78 -- land in Knorrlesville from Mary Luse
(1843) 24, 378 --diverse lots from Joshua Nichols
GRANTOR
(1835) 9, 29 -- 72 ac. to Orange Butler
(1838) 16, 378 -- diverse parcels to Thomas Pplues
(1846) 27, 53 -- 100 ac. to Walter A. Rice
(1850) 33, 91 -- 100+ ac. to George E. Everett
Orleans Co., NY:
(year) Mortgage Book, page
MORTGAGOR (buyer/borrower)
(1830) 2, 175 -- from Alpheus Wooster
(1844) 18, 1 -- from Isaac Bronson, by exec.
(1844) 18, 57 -- from Frederick Bronson
(1845) 18, 204 -- from John Boroman (?)
(1857) 30, 456 -- from Stephen D. Thorn
MORTGAGEE (seller/loaner)
(1833) 3, 465 -- to Orange Butler
(1834) 7, 147 -- to Philip Thompson
(1846) 19, 549 -- to Walter A. Rice
(1850) 22, 682 -- George H. Everett
(1850) 23, 150 -- to Walter A. Rice
Note: Conflicting sources claim that Lyman Hubbard Phillips was born 19 June 1
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